Over the next while we’re going to be “unveiling” some new ways for you and I to diversify revenue streams, through some partnerships. If you are interested (overviews below) please sign on to our partnering discussion group at this location. I’m going to use that so I can communicate with potential partners without having to repeat everything. If it turns out you have no interest, just unsubscribe.
1) We are looking for a limited number of partners to sell our products (mostly e-items) as affiliates/resellers. Initially, until your first sales, the commission is a paltry 20%, but we’ll increase that quickly after your first few sales. We anticipate most successful resellers will be earning 50% of sales, quickly.
You can actually sign up now and get going on this. It’s pretty straighforward. If you have questions, psot them in the discussion group above. To get started go to this site.
The neat part about the process is that you will be paid directly from our payment gateway, and your payments and accounting will be done by esellerate, so there is no issue of having to trust us. Everything is pretty transparent, although I suppose you need to trust them. (We do).
Opportunity Two:Reprint Service For Authors
We are creating a reprint service where corporations can pay a nominal fee ($65) to license our content. We plan on opening this up to some select writers so if you have a catalog of articles that you own the rights to, and the material is of the highest quality (better than free ezine site articles), we may be able to add your articles to our system. You would get paid through esselerate.net (see above). We need to get the infrastructure finished, and make some decisions on sales breakdowns. We are looking at a 40%/60% split in favor of the author, and there may be a small cost for each article to set it up in the system (maybe $7.50).
Anyway, it’s not firm yet. Please sign up to receive further information at the partners discussion group.
Third Option: Writing Helpcards:
Our helpcards are unique learning tools that have been well received. They are quite difficult to write since they need to transmit information on a topic in a small space (two-sided 8.5x11in). We will consider having people create these cards, with our guidance, and we will market and sell them. Ideally, you should own a copy of MS Publisher since that’s the format we use, and we can supply you with templates.Helpcards tend to sell at around 10 dollars. For e-helpcards we’ll probably split the price 50-50 with the author. You keep the copyrights, though.
Once again, if you are interested, join the partners group, where we can explore this further.
Fourth Option: We Sell Your Stuff
We are also looking at selling your “stuff”, or at least your “e-stuff” (manuals, e-books, guides) that fit our focus on business, professionals, management, etc. We’ll negotiate on a case-by-case basis, but we’d be your retailers, and you’d keep all ownership. Again. Join the partners group, where we can explore this further.
Important: We have no desire to grow our company beyond its present size, and we can only work with a handful of people in each category, at least for starting these things up. What that means is we will be selective about the partners we work with, and we want to forge relationships with our partners.
If you are good, unique, have a distinct voice and perspective, we can probably figure things out. I want to get things moving as quickly as possible but things always take longer than I think. Tune in to the discussion list. I’ll be posting news about progress starting next week (I think) – March 18 or so.
